Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Thomas Gainsborough · 1785-1787 · oil on canvas

Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan is an oil on canvas portrait painted by English artist Thomas Gainsborough, from 1785-1787. It was acquired by the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C., in 1937. Mrs. Sheridan was a talented musician who enjoyed professional success in Bath and London before marrying Richard Brinsley Sheridan in 1773 and abandoning her career. She was 31-33 when she sat for Gainsborough, dying from tuberculosis seven years later at the age of thirty-eight. The portrait was painted between 1785 and 1787, and, was exhibited at Gainsborough's studio at Schomberg House, Pall Mall in 1786.

Image courtesy of The National Gallery of Art.

Available as a made-to-order museum-quality canvas print: stretched or framed.